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Welcome to the Doctoral Center IWIT

At the Doctoral Center for Engineering Sciences and Information Technologies (IWIT), early career researchers can obtain the following academic degrees:

Doctor of Engineering or Doctor of Science in Engineering (Dr.-Ing.)

Doctor of Natural Sciences or Doctor of Science (Dr. rer. nat.)

With the awarding of the independent right to confer doctoral degrees, the extraordinary research strength of the universities of applied sciences in Saxony-Anhalt was recognized. Now the universities of applied sciences can independently lead researchers on their way to their doctoral degrees. The Doctoral Center IWIT combines the competences of the universities of applied sciences in Anhalt, Harz and Merseburg. 

Excellent support at three universities of applied sciences

The pronounced interdisciplinarity and the broad expertise of the professors involved from the three universities of applied sciences in Anhalt, Harz and Merseburg are the special strengths of the cross-university Doctoral Center IWIT. For your doctorate, you will have supervisors from several fields of engineering sciences and information technologies at your side. Doctoral students can choose between seven research areas and, thus, place their topic precisely.

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Civil Engineering and Geodesy
  • Mechanical Engineering and Materials Technology
  • Chemical and Environmental Engineering
  • Applied Natural Sciences
  • Applied Computer Science
  • Information Processing and Communication Technologies

Forward-looking ideas for the environment and society

The doctoral students of the Doctoral Center IWIT make a valid contribution towards meeting future challenges regarding digitalization, artificial intelligence, climate change and sustainability. Therefore, the Doctoral Center IWIT bundles marketable ideas and innovative strength and, thus, shapes the technological change towards a sustainable society.

Do you have any ideas?

Do you have an idea for a dissertation topic in the field of engineering sciences and information technologies and are interested in doing a doctorate at a university of applied sciences in Saxony-Anhalt? At first you should read the doctoralregulations of the Doctoral Center IWIT. Then look for a professor at the Doctoral Center IWIT who would like to supervise the topic. The best thing to do is to make an appointment with the potential supervisor to present the topic and win them over to support your project. In the next step, you conclude a doctorate agreement with your supervisor and submit the application for acceptance as a doctoral candidate with all the necessary documents to the doctoral committee. This also includes writing an exposé on the doctoral project. 

The application should be sent by post and digitally to the contact person at the university where the first supervisor works. If the supervisor is based at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, please send the documents to Dr. Ulrike Herbert (ulrike.herbert(at)hs-anhalt.de). Adress: Hochschule Anhalt, z.H. Ulrike Herbert, Bernburger Straße 55, 06366 Köthen.

If your first supervisor works at another university of applied sciences, please go to: HS Merseburg, HS Harz

You need documents?

Find them here.

 

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First doctoral hat at the doctoral center of Anhalt University of Applied Sciences

Saving energy is an important topic of our time in the context of finite resources. In order to develop new, effective methods, science and industry must work closely together. Ivan Matveev completed his doctorate at the Doctoral Center for Engineering and Information Technologies, driving forward the so-called SmartLighting technology. He has now defended his doctoral thesis and is the first doctoral candidate at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences to receive a doctoral hat.... 

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